Dear Pen-L
Here is the address on my WWW server where you can read my paper
that I will present in Chicago (the agenda was circulated by Matt
in the last day or so.
The Title:
The Buffer Stock Employment Model and the NAIRU - the Path to Full
Employment.
Two formats are available:
HTML
At 14:41 11/12/97 -0400, Ricardo wrote:
No, What Is to Be Done? is Lenin's most original political text;
indeed it is the foundation of Bolshevism: the working class
movement does not have a revolutionary consciousness of its own; left
to itself, such movement will never develop beyond
Michael Perelman wrote:
By the way, I asked a couple of weeks ago about the F.I.A.S.C.O. book
and got no response. I was surprised.
What did you ask? I reviewed it in LBO #80, so I'm a font of opinions on
the book.
Doug
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I would add that, for Lenin, tiny, minute differences in strategy and
tactics
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I don't think Lenin thought the workers as "incapable" as
Ricardo:
Was it personality, as you say? If it was, I say it was Plekhanov's
resenment that Lenin had demonstrated himself
to be the leader of the Party.
I'm sorry, Ricardo, but Plekhanov was Lenin's closest ally at the 1903
conference. He was considered Plekhnaov's protege. You really have
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer price Index for Finished Goods decreased
0.2 percent in November, seasonally adjusted. This followed a rise of
0.1 percent in October. The index for crude materials rose 1.6 percent
after advancing 4.0 percent in
The Daily Telegraph 14 December 1997
AMERICA GROWS WARY OF GATES'S
BID TO CONTROL THE WEB
By Ivo Dawnay in Washington
The interim ruling by a US federal judge that Microsoft could not
bundle its browser with Windows 95 was not just
The Daily Telegraph Monday 8 December 1997
WORLD FEARS GROW OVER ASIA
By Richard Northedge, Deputy City Editor
The Bank for International Settlements warned yesterday that the
currency troubles in South East Asia are likely to have
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
But...if they spend less time, and earn more, they will definitely
have no revolutionary consciousness. [Ricardo]
Ricardo, Is this your opinion or do you ascribe it to Lenin? I'm getting
confused in what you are trying to say. I
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At 14:41 11/12/97 -0400, Ricardo wrote:
No, What Is to Be Done? is Lenin's most original
Quoth Doug, in part:
The growth in the stock of consumer credit is equal
to 27.4% of consumption growth; if you translated this into soundbite, as
journalists recklessly do, you could say that more than a quarter of all
consumption growth was financed by credit cards.
Ricardo:
As you would have it, there were no differences at all! So, how do we
explain the mystery of the split? Personality squabbles?! What a
marxist!
From the sounds of this, you were never a political activist. Those of us
who were 1960s activists walk around with the scars of
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Ricardo:
As you would have it, there were no differences at all! So, how do we
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, michael perelman wrote:
I have a few sections on higher ed. in my forthcoming book:
Class Struggles in the Information Age.
Sounds cool. I could use a text like that for teaching my spring 1998
class. Will it be out by then, and if so, who's the publisher?
-- Dennis
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Dear Friends:
We have received some disturbing news from the organisation "Mujeres sin
Fronteras" (Women without Borders), and the Comite de Solidaridad
Internacional de Zaragoza
Wojtek writes: The most interesting thing in all that is the question why
does economics emphasize this procedural or manipulative-technological
aspect of inquiry more so than other social sciences (if that is indeed the
case)?
I think that the emphasis on math comes because (1) it's a
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Subject: URGENT ACTION EL SALVADOR
Dear Friends: *UPDATED VERSION*
On the morning of Tuesday, November 11, in one of the most serious
industrial accidents of the decade, over 100 workers were poisoned at the
Yes, Nathan is doing a wonderful job. People like myself and Eric Nielson have
been trying to stir things up, but the story never took hold until Nathan
stepped in. Thanks.
James Devine wrote:
L.A. TIMES, 12/15/97, page D-1: Referring to CETI, California Education
Technology Initiative,
Here are some numbers that shed light on my question about the sources of
U.S. growth over this fiscally tight expansion. This expansion, heralded as
the final triumph of the American way, has relied more on consumption than
all but one of the last 8 expansions, consuming 99.1% of income growth,
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Ricardo:
Was it personality, as you say? If it was, I say it was Plekhanov's
L.A. TIMES, 12/15/97, page D-1: Referring to CETI, California Education
Technology Initiative, pushed by GTE, Hughes Communication, Microsoft
[boo!], and Fujitu, building a network system for the California State
University system, pen-l's Nathan Newman is quoted as saying:
"... 'CETI is a
I have a few sections on higher ed. in my forthcoming book:
Class Struggles in the Information Age.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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I have only been responding to Doug's characterization of Shaikh's work.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
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Thanx for your reply, Jim. A few minor comments:
RE:
This sounds like a Chicago schoolian. They follow Milton Friedman's
"positive economics" and don't really care about the validity of their
assumptions of how things work (i.e., causality). All these types care
about is whether or not the
Dear PEN,
A colleague in our insurgent union caucus here at CUNY asks:
"Could you put together some titles of basic political-economy-of-
higher-education work? Not so much the recent stuff like *Will Work for
Food,* as more theoretical or deeper foundational analysis of HE in the
Here are two more takes on May 68.
rb
The first is from Rene Vienet (Enrages and the Situationists in the
Occupation Movement--France May-June 1968. Autonomedia Press):
"...in the space of a week, millions of people had broken with the weight
of alienating conditions, the routine of survival,
Perelman writes:
I only mentioned this article to register a bit of doubt about Shaikh's
interpretation.
Which interpretation of Shaikh's or which of Shaikh's writings does
Perelman have in mind ?
Regards
Jurriaan.
Michael Perelman quoted:
11: "Why did profitability fall after the 1970s? One plausible, but
unproven, explanation is that a number of factors have heightened the
degree of competition facing firms. In turn, greater competition may
have speeded up the pace of capital depreciation as firms
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